Vapor-burner



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Z. DAVIS.

VAPOR BURNER.

Patented Mar. 7,1882. .v

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. l

ZEBULON DAVIS, OF CANTON, OHIO.

VAPOR-BURNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 254,623, dated March '7, 1882.

Application filed January 11, 1882.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, ZEBULoN DAVIS, of Ganton, in the county of Stark and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in VaporBurners; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it per tains to make and use it, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in vapor-burners and it consists in the combination of a casting, which comprises the flaring deiiecting-plate, a socket for the inlet-tube, and the pipe in which the regulating-screw is placed, with a vertically-adjustable tip having a plate formed upon its inner side.

It further consists in a tip which is made vertically adjustable, in combination with the casting, having a depressed air-channel made in its top, so that the outward passage of the vapor over the delecting-plate will entrain a sufficient quantity of air to cause a more perfectcombustion, as will be more fully described hereinafter.

The object of my invention is to make the tip vertically adjustable, so as to always insure a brilliant illuminating-name under all thevaryingcircumstances; andtoproperlyproportion the amount of air-supply to oxygenize theiiame so as to produce the maximum amount of illumination with the least consumption of fluid.

Figure 1 is a vertical section of my invension. Fig. 2 is a perspective of the tip by itself.

A represents a casting which has formed in a single piece with it a curved flaring deiiector-plate, B, the socket G for the inlet-pipe, and the vertical pipe D,in which is placed the screw plug or valve F, for controlling the Il ow of the vapor.

In the top of the vertical pipe is placed the gas-tip G, which, instead of having a small round hole through which the vapor escapes, has here a long lat slot, which serves to spread the vapor as it escapes over a wider surface, and thus produce a betterlight.

Secured to the inner side of this tip, and eX- tending any suitable distance over the bottom of the delector-plate, is the guardplate I, as

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shown in Fig. 2. Inthe inner end of this deector-plate is formed a suitable air-channel, O, through which air is entrained by the escaping vapor, and which air serves to render the vapor combustible and illuminating.

Between the base of the tip and the inner end of the detlcctor-plate there is made a sufficient depression or channel for the air to flow freely in so as to pass through under the guard-plate, and by this construction the air is made to come in direct contact with the heated burner, and it is thus heated to such an extent as to cause it to produce a better illuminating-name than where the cold air is made to commingle with the vapor. The escaping vapor entrains a quantity of air, proportioned to the amount of vapor that is being used, and this air and vapor in commingling are caused to spread outward upon the curved flaring detlector-plate, upon the edge of which the vapor burns with a brilliant llame. The channel formed in the plate is of such a form as to deliver the heated air to the vapor in the best manner to insure their perfect commingling to produce a brilliant llame.

The burner-tip may be made vertically adjustable by means of a screw-thread by tting tightly in the top of thevertical pipe, or in any other way that may be preferred.` Where the amount of air is disproportioned to thev amount ot' vapor that is escaping, instead of a bright illuminating-flame a blue heating-flame is produced. The object in having this tip made vertically adjustable is to regulate the amount of air to the amount of vapor that is being burned, and thus always to insure a perfeet combustion and a brilliant light.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- 1. In a vapor-burner, a vertically-adjustable tip provided with a guard-plate upon its inner side, in combination with a recessed, flaring, curved deflectorplate, substantially as shown.

2. In a vapor-burner, the casting A,having an air-channel formed in its inner end just under the outer edge of the guard-plate, and having a suitable depression or opening formed between the base of the tip and theinner end of the curved delector-plate, to allow the air to flow freely in and to become heated before IOO it is made to commingle with the vapor, subpressed air-channel formed in the top of its instantially as described. nerend, substantially as set forth. 1o,

3. In a vapor-burner the combination ofthe In testimony whereof I affix my signaturein casting A, having the curved deiiector-plate, presence of two witnesses.

socket for the inlet-tube, the vertical tube in ZEBULON DAVIS. which is placed a screw-valve, the vertically- Witnesses:

adjustable tip having a guard-plate upon its W. W. MORTIMER,

inner side, and the detiectonplate having a de- WM. H. KERN. 

